science scouts?!

[naoise]

Im not sure if this is the right place to put this, but I found this site a while ago and wanted to share! ( I think we need a cool links thread, if there isn't one already!)

umm without further ado, I present to you The Order of the Science Scouts of Exemplary Repute and Above Average Physique :

scq.ubc.ca/sciencescouts/#badges

It is sort of an internet order where you can post badges somewhere (your web page?) and you have to explain how you earned them.

Among my favorites are:
The "I may look like a scientist but I'm actually also a ninja" badge. (Lethal when in combination with the "destroyer of quackery" badge.)

The "I may look like a scientist, but I'm actually also a pirate" badge.
(Drinks rum. Into pillaging and stuff. Soft spot for evolutionary biology.)

The "totally digs highly exothermic reactions" badge.
(Might be best to keep an eye on such recipients.)

The "I will crush you with my math prowess" badge.
(Seriously, scary stuff.)

(**note: for those who are not science-savvy, a highly exothermic reaction is a fancy of saying a really big explosion.)

yup!

Well that was random!

[Trey]

That's awesome.

I want some for real life.

[The Star Fox]

hahah I actually understood far too many of those

[naoise]

I will try to get as many as possible over the next four years!

[The Star Fox]

I think I already have earned 3/4 ths

[limbowoman]

Just curious... am I the only one who knows what an exothermic reaction is..?

[naoise]

I knew what it was XD. I just put it so that in case someone didn't. I am currently in school, so we learn all about exothermic reactions. We in fact did a sort of chemistry mini unit of thermodynamics just a while ago.

[limbowoman]

...what's stupid is I haven't been at school for years and I still know what it is...

[paralyzed]

LW, are you one of those who suffer that paroxysm "You are suddenly striked by random knowledge from the fields you are not supposed to know anything, and stop your current activity to inform the world".

I have it. Sometimes I amuze my humanistic studies friends with random science knowledge. They crawl under the table just for the thought of me loving studying chemistry in senior high. Professor Trelawney's secret-science-seer connection, or something.

I'd love to have The “MacGyver” badge but I'm not anywhere near worth it.

[Jones]

Woot! I deserve the Statistical Linear Regression badge! :D Take that, science!

The pirate one would be cooler, if not for the evolutionary biology component. :(

[naoise]

Maybe if we ask really nicely they will make a Vampirate badge!

[limbowoman]

I just seem to have a brain that stores random useless information... I still remmeber the number plate on my mother's car from when I was five...

[The Star Fox]

heh could be worse

[limbowoman]

...true, I could be a squirrel who thought they were a fox...

...you're going to hurt me now, aren't you, squirrel..?

Before my imminent pain I would just like to say that vampirate badges would be very cool, but they probably wouldn't make them for us without money... which is very hard to come by...

[The Star Fox]

*throws a heap of nuts and corpses of small animals on top of Limbo*
Yes that is a good point